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Rand Paul wins 2014 CPAC straw poll, Ted Cruz finishes a distant second
The Associated Press ^ | 03-08-2014 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 03/08/2014 2:52:54 PM PST by PaulCruz2016

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re playing the same “gotcha” game that your buds on the Left play with the Tea Party, because kooks show up at their rallies.

Others of your Leftist buddies play the game with Christians, because the Westboro nuts call themselves Christians.

I know it’s a lot easier to smear - the Tea Party, Christianity - and Rand Paul — than to meet them on the grounds of argument and debate, but the tactic is getting old, and smart folks see through it.


261 posted on 03/09/2014 1:28:32 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: plainshame
Rand just won CPAC so i guess they hate the Pauls.LOL!

The Paul's win straw polls all the time and it is meaningless.

Half CPAC attendees are kids, hardly representative of the conservative voting public.

Many young people gravitate towards liberalism and to a lesser extent libertarianism - the smart ones usually grow out of it. Ron Paul knows this, which is why he stopped bothering to run as a Libertarian.

262 posted on 03/09/2014 1:34:29 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: PapaNew

“Of course the moral and spiritual issues of the American People underlie our malaise, but those issue aren’t solved with politics - never have and never will.”

Indeed...then you are WASTING time trying to fight big government, because it is the RESULT of spiritual sickness.

While politics ARE NOT going to solve “Sin” and “Spiritual Deadness” problems per se.... but having “Godless” leaders that focus on the economy is deadly when moral decay - they could help delay is left unchallenged. A “Godless” President Obama has helped push forward the homosexual agenda. Where were those persons in leadership that would “shut down” government rather than let him do so? It certainly would not have been a “Rand Paul” or any other Libertarian. I was horrified when even Palin and Huckabee (a Baptist preacher) did not raise an extreme objection when Mr. Obama weakened our military by repealing DADT and allowed open homosexuals that are really starting to be a problem.

No, we need strong socially/morally conservative leaders that will make those moral/social issues priority. THEN the rest will fall into place. A great many of the problems with Obamacare are social/moral concerns.

If tomorrow we were able to cut the “big government” in half....the remaining sewer that America has become would still render are country weak and seriously ill. Cutting government is NOT the solution....it must be the result of the solution as I have previously stated.


263 posted on 03/09/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Sola Veritas
Yours is an either/or or serial argument. Mine is a both or concurrent argument. My argument is to fight the political ans spiritual battles on two different fronts but at the same time, kind of like the U.S versus Germany & Japan. Although Nazi Germany was what spurred Japan as part of the Axis to attack us, we would have been in trouble if we had waited to beat Germany first before turning our attention to Japan. And we didn't need to beat Germany first before beating japan. They were independent campaigns.

In the same way, I don't believe we have to have a spiritual awakening and renewal first before we cut government, but I think we'll need it to maintain limited government. We must work towards both - but if we don't do everything necessary to cut government now, we may not have a free country in which to have a spiritual renewal in.

264 posted on 03/09/2014 3:58:25 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

If you want to return to small limited government, then support the people who gave it to us, and who are fighting for it now, the conservatives, not the liberals and libertarians, they are the ones who took over in the 1960s.

Social liberalism creates, imports, and breeds, more democrat voters, and it even changes conservative voters and their offspring into ever more liberal voters, just look at how far left the nation has moved in 60 years, today, even conservatives are arguing about abortion and gay marriage, and a homosexual military, drugs, and porn, a weak military, and things that were inconceivable in the past.


265 posted on 03/09/2014 5:22:39 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
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To: WilliamIII

Yeah, new guy, I’m a leftist, just ask anybody here.


266 posted on 03/09/2014 5:58:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Norseman; ansel12

I give a hat tip to anyone and everyone who pings me to a zot, so that I can continue the long-time FR tradition of announcing a banning.

Ansel12 (courtesy ping) was the only one this time, but there have been as many as five.


267 posted on 03/09/2014 6:14:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: SunkenCiv

You are a wise man indeed, my friend.


268 posted on 03/09/2014 6:17:17 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When you adapt the tactics of the Left, to that extent you’re a Leftist. Smearing Rand Paul by showing a photo of a nut at a Ron Paul rally — a woman who could be a plant for all you know — that’s the tactic of the Left., It’s what they do to the Tea Party in the same way.


269 posted on 03/09/2014 6:22:09 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

Did I call you?


270 posted on 03/09/2014 6:24:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Thankfully not thought 8 percent is too high for him.


271 posted on 03/09/2014 8:01:32 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ansel12
I'll support those that speak unequivocally and often about government being the problem not the solution and our greatest need being cutting government and taxes. So far Palin and Paul are the two front runners on that score. Unfortunately it's hard to vote for Plain when she isn't running.

I'm a freedom lover and a freedom fighter. I don't know what a "conservative" is. I'm not interested in labels like some are around here and I'm not interested in keeping the status quo. I'm interested in life, liberty, and the free pursuit of one's happiness however they choose as long as it doesn't interfere with some else's freedom. I'll support those who support freedom from government coercion. As I said, politically, everything else is chump change

272 posted on 03/09/2014 8:11:52 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

So throwing a lot of words around while you reject conservatism.

A conservative that only embraces part of conservatism, is doomed to discover that social liberalism destroys economic conservatism.

Rather than waiting to discover that fact of life, he should just look at the last 60 years and see how social liberalism has led to an electorate that votes liberal.

Evidently your liberal parts are more important to you than conservatism.

If you want to return to small limited government, then support the people who gave it to us, and who are fighting for it now, the conservatives, not the liberals and libertarians, they are the ones who took over in the 1960s.

Social liberalism creates, imports, and breeds, more democrat voters, and it even changes conservative voters and their offspring into ever more liberal voters, just look at how far left the nation has moved in 60 years, today, even conservatives are arguing about abortion and gay marriage, and a homosexual military, drugs, and porn, a weak military, and things that were inconceivable in the past.


273 posted on 03/09/2014 8:18:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
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To: ansel12

Why don’t you tell me what “conservatism” is?


274 posted on 03/09/2014 9:39:23 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Why don’t you explain what post 264 says and what your arguments are against it?


275 posted on 03/09/2014 11:42:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
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To: ansel12
because he is against Paul and a conservative?

Well, for over a year here on FR the official POV was: "no Romneys!.....No Romneys!!!!......NO ROMNEYS!!!!!!!!!"

Then, a few weeks before the election, there was a quiet: "ok, Romneys I guess, if ya feel ya must to beat Obama."

Things change, and if it turns out to be Rand versus Hillary, I think there will be few Freepers who are inclined to stay home or vote third party.

276 posted on 03/10/2014 5:58:47 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Zenjitsuman

“This is meaningless”

It is only meaningless if your guy/gal is losing. If your guy/gal is winning then it is foretelling of future events.

If Palin had won it would not be meaningless. If Cruz had won it would not be meaningless. If Christie had won, then it would be meaningless.


277 posted on 03/10/2014 7:02:34 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
I thought Christie was coming back.

Nope. All the GOPe's horses and all the GOPe's men can't put the RINO together again.

278 posted on 03/10/2014 7:03:43 AM PDT by Aqua Buddhist
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To: PaulCruz2016
That link didn't work -- I searched a bit and found the correct one here.
279 posted on 03/10/2014 7:03:43 AM PDT by Aqua Buddhist
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To: deport

“IMO, not all that splash around have any expectations of winning the prize.”

I think so. A lot of people are running for vice president or to do well enough so that they have a better shot at 2020.

I still think the nominee will be from Bush, Santorum, Romney or Ryan.


280 posted on 03/10/2014 7:12:10 AM PDT by staytrue
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